In February of last year I purchased the domain ravin.gs. To this day VeriSign still won't help me set it up...
After a month or two of emailing back and forth with tech support, trying to get them to sort out my DNS's, I gave up in frustration when none of the host registration things you have to do for each DNS actually got processed, and when I finally got them to work (or so it seemed) the host records for my domain still never updated.
The "24 hour" replies to email support NEVER took less than 2 days, normally being around 3-4. And their final solution after constant nagging on my part was "sorry we can't help you on email, call up our tech support number and get them to fix it". Unfortunately for me, I live in Australia so I'm usually sleeping when the number is open, and I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars in phone calls just to get them to fix their own problems.
So, being the Aussie Battler I am, I gave up.
If anyone wants the domain "ravin.gs", just email me and i'll transfer it to you for free (as in beer, speech, whatever - i don't want the fucking thing). It expires next month but I don't want it. It's got the NetSol curse.
...and they can upgrade to the 64-bit version as soon as it is deemed economically viable by Microsoft to release it.
I was in Bali in August, and there were copies of WinXP 64-bit edition on the shelves there:) About as legal as selling cocaine to 4 year olds, but publically available none-the-less.
Would have cost me a whole 7 bucks too (that's australian... ~US$3.50)
Sony will probably never take off with online gaming since it has no centralized system. You'll have to pay a seperate bill for every single online PS2 game you want to play.
Sorry if this sounds like a troll, but personally I find this extremely difficult to believe. Do you pay a seperate bill for every single PC game you want to play? By any chance, do you pay any bills at all?
I don't, and unless you're playing a subscription game like UO, you shouldn't either. The first online game (that i'm aware of anyway) that came out for PS2 was Tony Hawk 3 and that charges no subscription fee.
If de-centralized gaming is going to cost money to play, then people will just host their own free servers. If no-one else is doing it, I'll personally do it myself. Now we just gotta wait for the server code to become freely available:/
Right now I'm using a "M$ Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1A USB and PS/2 Compatible" mouse under NT4 and Opera7b1. Mouse works fine... can scroll using the scrolly wheel thingo and if you click the wheel the little circle with the arrows comes up in it just like any other app. Try d/l'ing the newest version and seeing how you go.
A 20% cut of my CEO's wages would be equivalent to almost 5 times my personal salary. I think it's not only good for employee's general happiness and executive respect, but it's also better for accounting and public opinion when the CEO loses a small(ish) fraction of his/her salary.
: But considering most gamers have DSL with a static IP
Not in Australia, most normal users have DHCP, including Telstra (the ISP hosting GamesArena and the company that owns the infrastructure for ADSL over most of australia)
What's the point with electronic music? Sure if an artist wrote a track with the full 6 channels, then it would make a difference, but it's not like non-electronic production, where its all stored multi-channel on a DAT anyway. Hell, most electronic music isn't made in anything more than mono anyway (bar the occasional stereo chorus type effect).
Who knows... maybe the next High Contrast track will sound like it's come from SIX different computers!
Microsoft are one of the largest corporations that ever existed. They didn't get like that by making stupid business moves.
Your PC will still be 'usable' as a 'home' machine, but you'll have to ask Microsoft about everything first.
For Joe User, and for the 'Corporate Cube Vine', this will be quite substantial. It'll fuck things up for the rest of us though. Palladium will still be somewhat of a success because it WILL be usable by a large percentage of the general populace. I just don't wanna know what M$'s next marketing tactic will be...
I'd like to see an invention like this brought to place. Particularly with IR. I can picture the endless fun with my Palm & OmniRemote (used to train your Palm to emulate a remote control)
... standing on the balcony, remote controlling the shower door when the girl next door is trying to bathe:)
I think you're also missing the point in that it is not intended to replace a keyboard, but it to be used in places where a keyboard cannot.
Such as an accessibility feature for handicapped situations, or a feature for handicapped PCs, such as PDAs/Palmtops. I checked out dasher the first time it was posted on slashdot and i found it to be easier and faster to learn and use than the graffiti input system.
Who knows... Maybe the Palm XXV's will have a dasher interface instead of the graffiti? I'd like to see it anyway.
It's been cracked already...
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Some guys in Slovenia cracked this baby open 18 hours ago.
It seems all you need to beat it is a felt-tip marker.
I'm using Netspace as an ADSL provider, 512kbps, extremely reliable, available everywhere DSL is and 10gb/month traffic... 3gb peak (same as telstra/optus) and 7gb off peak (midnight-7am weekdays + all weekend). For a home user this is stupidly more than enough. And it comes at only AU$5/month more than telstra's equivalent (512k, 3gb/month).
For now, 10gb is enough for anyone... When the 'Next Big Thing' comes along, we'll deal with the 'Next Big Data Pipe'.
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Their entire view of the world, and history will be controlled.
As I read the parent post a sharp chill went down my spine...
1984, anyone?
'Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' - George Orwell.
In February of last year I purchased the domain ravin.gs. To this day VeriSign still won't help me set it up...
After a month or two of emailing back and forth with tech support, trying to get them to sort out my DNS's, I gave up in frustration when none of the host registration things you have to do for each DNS actually got processed, and when I finally got them to work (or so it seemed) the host records for my domain still never updated.
The "24 hour" replies to email support NEVER took less than 2 days, normally being around 3-4. And their final solution after constant nagging on my part was "sorry we can't help you on email, call up our tech support number and get them to fix it". Unfortunately for me, I live in Australia so I'm usually sleeping when the number is open, and I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars in phone calls just to get them to fix their own problems.
So, being the Aussie Battler I am, I gave up.
If anyone wants the domain "ravin.gs", just email me and i'll transfer it to you for free (as in beer, speech, whatever - i don't want the fucking thing). It expires next month but I don't want it. It's got the NetSol curse.
...and they can upgrade to the 64-bit version as soon as it is deemed economically viable by Microsoft to release it.
:) About as legal as selling cocaine to 4 year olds, but publically available none-the-less.
I was in Bali in August, and there were copies of WinXP 64-bit edition on the shelves there
Would have cost me a whole 7 bucks too (that's australian... ~US$3.50)
Sony will probably never take off with online gaming since it has no centralized system. You'll have to pay a seperate bill for every single online PS2 game you want to play.
:/
Sorry if this sounds like a troll, but personally I find this extremely difficult to believe. Do you pay a seperate bill for every single PC game you want to play? By any chance, do you pay any bills at all?
I don't, and unless you're playing a subscription game like UO, you shouldn't either. The first online game (that i'm aware of anyway) that came out for PS2 was Tony Hawk 3 and that charges no subscription fee.
If de-centralized gaming is going to cost money to play, then people will just host their own free servers. If no-one else is doing it, I'll personally do it myself. Now we just gotta wait for the server code to become freely available
Right now I'm using a "M$ Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1A USB and PS/2 Compatible" mouse under NT4 and Opera7b1. Mouse works fine... can scroll using the scrolly wheel thingo and if you click the wheel the little circle with the arrows comes up in it just like any other app. Try d/l'ing the newest version and seeing how you go.
I thought it was .nl :)
A 20% cut of my CEO's wages would be equivalent to almost 5 times my personal salary. I think it's not only good for employee's general happiness and executive respect, but it's also better for accounting and public opinion when the CEO loses a small(ish) fraction of his/her salary.
Sounds like someones been looking up a bit too much (M)Andy Moore pr0n...
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"All your base are belong to us." - Decimal Nazis.
"A user may read the paraphrased EULA, then perform an action with the software not specifically outlined in that paraphrased form"
As opposed to the current situation, where they don't read any of it and just click "I Agree"?
: But considering most gamers have DSL with a static IP
Not in Australia, most normal users have DHCP, including Telstra (the ISP hosting GamesArena and the company that owns the infrastructure for ADSL over most of australia)
I couldn't agree more, and thought this quote was relevant:
"I detest what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire
What's the point with electronic music? Sure if an artist wrote a track with the full 6 channels, then it would make a difference, but it's not like non-electronic production, where its all stored multi-channel on a DAT anyway. Hell, most electronic music isn't made in anything more than mono anyway (bar the occasional stereo chorus type effect).
Who knows... maybe the next High Contrast track will sound like it's come from SIX different computers!
WHY?
Strangely enough, both of these consoles run operating systems (or versions of) written by Microsoft. (Dreamcast runs a modified version of WinCE)
There seems to be a link here regarding MS-operating systems and losing money. Help anyone?
Microsoft are one of the largest corporations that ever existed. They didn't get like that by making stupid business moves. Your PC will still be 'usable' as a 'home' machine, but you'll have to ask Microsoft about everything first. For Joe User, and for the 'Corporate Cube Vine', this will be quite substantial. It'll fuck things up for the rest of us though. Palladium will still be somewhat of a success because it WILL be usable by a large percentage of the general populace. I just don't wanna know what M$'s next marketing tactic will be...
... Approx. 468 legitmate copies of the Harry Potter movie mentioned in the previous article.
:)
And have 80mb remaining for a bootable-viewer-os-type-thing.
Wow
is this an idea before its time?
Hardly, I'd say it's well behind times. I can download a 1.4gb version for free!
I'd like to see an invention like this brought to place. Particularly with IR. I can picture the endless fun with my Palm & OmniRemote (used to train your Palm to emulate a remote control)
... standing on the balcony, remote controlling the shower door when the girl next door is trying to bathe :)
I think you're also missing the point in that it is not intended to replace a keyboard, but it to be used in places where a keyboard cannot. Such as an accessibility feature for handicapped situations, or a feature for handicapped PCs, such as PDAs/Palmtops. I checked out dasher the first time it was posted on slashdot and i found it to be easier and faster to learn and use than the graffiti input system.
Who knows... Maybe the Palm XXV's will have a dasher interface instead of the graffiti? I'd like to see it anyway.
Some guys in Slovenia cracked this baby open 18 hours ago.
It seems all you need to beat it is a felt-tip marker.
What's the big deal here???
I'm using Netspace as an ADSL provider, 512kbps, extremely reliable, available everywhere DSL is and 10gb/month traffic... 3gb peak (same as telstra/optus) and 7gb off peak (midnight-7am weekdays + all weekend). For a home user this is stupidly more than enough. And it comes at only AU$5/month more than telstra's equivalent (512k, 3gb/month).
For now, 10gb is enough for anyone... When the 'Next Big Thing' comes along, we'll deal with the 'Next Big Data Pipe'.